Life cycle assessment of residential heat production from wood pellet combustion in the Northwest region of Russia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00619648" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00619648 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/25:43927052

Result on the web

<a href="https://jfs.agriculturejournals.cz/pdfs/jfs/2025/04/03.pdf" target="_blank" >https://jfs.agriculturejournals.cz/pdfs/jfs/2025/04/03.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/88/2024-JFS" target="_blank" >10.17221/88/2024-JFS</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Life cycle assessment of residential heat production from wood pellet combustion in the Northwest region of Russia

Original language description

The increasing global demand for energy and the negative environmental impacts of fossil fuel exploitation have driven interest in sustainable energy solutions, such as wood. The Russian Federation, as one of the world's largest pellet producers, has an opportunity to utilise pellets domestically. This study addresses the lack of publicly available life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on pellet production and utilisation in Russia, specifically examining the environmental impact of residential heat production from locally produced wood pellets. Utilising primary data from the Northwest region, the study follows ISO 14040 and 14044 standards and employs the ReCiPe 2016 (H) Midpoint v. 1.1 method to assess environmental impacts. The results indicate that the production of pellets is the dominant contributor to the global warming impact category, marine eutrophication, and fossil resource scarcity, while transportation has the least impact across all categories. Sensitivity analyses confirm the robustness of these findings, revealing that using natural gas for pellet drying increases emissions for global warming and fossil resource scarcity, and increasing transportation distance significantly raises emissions across all categories. The findings provide valuable insights for policymakers and stakeholders aiming to enhance the sustainability of similar bioenergy systems.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Forest Science

ISSN

1212-4834

e-ISSN

1805-935X

Volume of the periodical

71

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

182-194

UT code for WoS article

001476098100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105004046638